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The odds of you winning the lottery are essentially zero, but the odds of somebody winning the lottery are quite good. I apply this same logic as a reader of fiction where the protagonist undergoes an unlikely series of events: you don’t read the story of the many people who led unremarkable […]

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When somebody says “I don’t do math in my daily life” I feel the same as when someone says “I don’t read” or “I don’t listen to music”. It is a struggle for me to perceive of a human experience that doesn’t contain these things. It is valid, and I attach no value judgment, but it is hard for me […]

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Use the billionaires as the omelas child until there are no more billionaires left

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There is a sentiment that I’ve never understood: that we can’t, as a society, have nice things because they would be “expensive”. We can’t have bike lanes or trains or beautiful buildings or healthy people or happy families or street trees or trams or any fucking thing because it would cost too […]

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What I want from a #papermod creation tool: - Webapp - Arbitrary paper size - Preview - Different folds (pocketfold, etc) - Gallery of premade pages that can be mixed and matched - Accepts pdf and image formats - markdown text editor - Images across multiple pages (two page spreads, or more in […]

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Some graffiti on a wall that said “the writing” which I thought was a little bit clever

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Soooo, I got a job offer from Coinbase over the weekend…. And last night I found out about their involvement in the Trump parade. I am surprised that/if they didn’t realize this would be a highly divisive event and how political their gesture would be. The only other tech companies were […]

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It was embarrassingly recent that I learned “human trafficking” doesn’t necessarily involve the movement of humans from one place to another.

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My kids are at their grandma’s witnessing morning children’s TV for the first time in their lives. As millennials, we have never had broadcast TV in our home, and the kids never get TV early in the day either.

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When I have an object in my pocket or on the table in front of me, I will fiddle with it compulsively. I can’t stop myself but it also gives me a vaguely sickening feeling. I need no more proof that people have very different lived experiences than the fact that some people seek out that […]

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Before I take seriously any dreams you may have about terraforming Mars, buy a few acres of the worst farmland in your area, and build a no input farm on it that feeds your family year-round. If you can't even do that, no mention of living on Mars please.

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What’s Shrek’s favourite snack? Ogre-rt

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Dear Tarot art illustrators, if you would only just put corner indices on your cards a bunch of weird nerds would buy them too (in addition to divination people)

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Really? You’re gonna go with that? 🤮

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A peculiar thing about a global economy is that most of the things you buy will have traveled farther without you than they will with you.

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Go ahead.

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If you need a laugh in these times, Game Changer has been giving me some big, deep, belly ones. I know it’s not a “new” show, but it’s new to me.

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“I don’t believe in tea leaves or tarot or any of that junk. It’s just humans seeing patterns where there aren’t any,” they said and then turned to back to continue chatting with ChatGPT.

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I never liked the cutting part of pocketmod, and I just realized you can just do this instead. It reads like a book for 1-6 and then you read like a book from the “back” cover (6) to read 7 and 8. Very natural and no cutting.

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Throughout my life I’ve sporadically kept journals. Always, when I was doing big trips to new places, and occasionally at other times. What’s been remarkable to me as I get older and read these old journals is how much of our lives we forget. When I peruse my journals I often find myself […]

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Made a pocketmod with rules for 17 card and pencil&paper games, sized to fit inside the box of a deck of poker cards.

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Reindeer Knizia

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Some people are an active Tx line with a missing Rx. Don’t take it personally when they don’t listen if they never listen to anyone.

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I think it is more important to feel like you are traveling quickly than to actually be travelling quickly, at least for all short or medium distance journeys.

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Found a tired friend this morning. #bumblebees

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I’ve been writing some rules for games I like out in 100 words or less. It is a fun challenge. 100 words just about guarantees that they will fit on a playing card or in a section of a pocketmod. Next challenge would be 500 characters or less, such that they could fit in a toot.

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The sign that the computer vision models have gotten really good is that this Captcha was genuinely challenging for me and not just for semantic reasons.

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I sometimes play games that use Ace as a 1. This is fine but also annoying. I would like if decks of cards had a 1 and an A. The Ace could even be a face card. While I am at it, I would also ask that decks please come with 4 jokers. …I guess maybe I’m just reinventing tarot decks (which have […]

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Google Docs doesn’t let you define a custom page size which seems like it should be pretty fucking fundamental for a word processor. Google slides, however, does. 🤷‍♀️

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The premise of Molly House is so different and refreshing (“Create joy in a queer community in 1700s London”) that it might get me to play my first Cole Wehrle game.

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Neocities seems pretty cool

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Trying to write the rules of some games I like in 100 words or less so that they will fit on one side of a playing card. It is really hard to do!

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My societally controversial take is that the lives of people outside of a car are worth as much as the lives of people inside a car.

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Filters that make people look like cats? Whatever. Give me the filter that makes cats look like people. Leave my cat to sit in my zoom calls

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I bought a plain v neck t-shirt from Target on clearance for something like $2.14 back around 2008. It has been in heavy rotation since. It is comfortable and flattering in a way none of my other t-shirts are. It is frustrating that I cannot just buy 20 more of these dang shirts. This one has […]

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I had to drive the car today :(

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PDF stands for Personal Display of Faffection

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An idea I might do: Take a deck of cards and starting from the Ace through to the King of each suit, affix them along a circular walk. If you noticed playing cards on, say, telephone poles, would your curiosity lead you to follow them?

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Golden Dome is a sex act and I refuse to be told otherwise

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Scratch the surface of most ardent pro-AI proponents and you uncover all sorts of horrendous anti-craft, anti-humanist philosophies. Remember, the debate is never what they say it is. The debate is never about the practical utility of any one tool or workflow. The debate is always about what […]

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I am interested in mancala family games because they are ancient and varied, so I picked up a thrift store copy of one of those cheap sets. What I didn’t anticipate is that my kiddo would fucking love it. It has pretty stones and she really likes the act of picking up the pieces and sowing. It […]

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This looks like the cover of a board game and I would absolutely play it https://mastodon.social/@oldbookillustrations/114616980229591501

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I assume people without children have holidays that are more relaxing than their full time jobs.

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Fashion tip: Wear bold patterns to camouflage the fact that you’ve spilled your lunch on yourself

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I knew pride locally was at a different time than in the USA, but apparently it’s not even the same time across Canada. Calgary has it in September, Ottawa August, Halifax July… Some cities it’s pride week, some pride month…

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Saw a post heavily insinuating that Duolingo is sharing data with ICE, but I can’t find anything on search (a lot of results about “duolingo on ice” hoax). Anyone heard about this?

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Still light out here, but clear and some decent chance of aurora. I’ll check again when I go to bed and it’s darker

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